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- Anatomy & Pathology 134
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129 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
2001
#10335
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…
2002
#9565
The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…
2003
#10233
Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.
This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…
2004
#10508
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
2005
#13769
Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.
"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…
2006
#7962
The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.
2006
#10366
All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
2006
#14048
An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…
2007
#11303
Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.
"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…
2009
#12058
Environment & Society Portal.
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/ "The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It addresses the community of teacher…
2009
#13038
The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…
2010
#7510
A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.
2010
#8027
Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael
2010
#9670
A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.
2012
#7961
Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.
2012
#9971
American canopy: Trees, forests and the making of a nation.
2013
#7618
An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.
2014
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2014
#8584
Food and environment in early and medieval China.
2015
#11807
The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.
2016
#8106
The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.
2016
#9594
Data Refuge.
https://www.datarefuge.org/ "Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost[1]. In particular, the initiativ…
2016
#10421
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
2018
#10425
Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.
2019
#11999
Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.
2020
#12602
Future of the human climate niche.
Significance "We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution lik…
2020
#13466
Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.
2020
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2022
#14049
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk.
1) Using a phylogeographical model of the mammal-virus network, and projections of geographical range shifts, the authors assert that 3,139 mammal species will aggregate in new combinations at high elevations, seeking…